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Found: We are prioritising that in bathing areas and what we call high priority areas— chalk streams, shellfish

Found: of investment into high priority sites through SODRP targets, as sites such as SSSIs, SACs, chalk

Found: Chalk streams are one of the UK’s most unique habitats.

Found: We are prioritising that in bathing areas and what we call high priority areas— chalk streams, shellfish

Found: We are prioritising that in bathing areas and what we call high priority areas— chalk streams, shellfish

Found: Singleton is a village in Chichester near the source of the River Lavant, one of Britain’s precious chalk

Found: it, but the choice we face as a country is whether we can continue to abstract so much water from chalk

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to introduce statutory protection for chalk streams.

Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

We have already brought forward changes to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act to help better protect chalk streams by adding chalk streams into the definitions of ‘environmental protection’ and ‘natural environment’ in the Act. This means that chalk streams must be considered when undertaking environmental assessments in the future, thereby recognising the value of these distinctive habitats. Also, chalk streams are now defined as priority sites in the government’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan with a target to improve 75% of storm overflows discharging to high priority sites by 2035.

We are working very closely with colleagues from the Environment Agency, the Chair of the Chalk Stream Restoration Group and the Wildlife Trust on the Chalk Stream Recovery Pack. The Recovery Pack will make a number of recommendations for government to tackle to restore and protect our chalk streams.

Found: • Modelling of national policies for reducing discharges in chalk streams and sensitive rivers (reducing

Found: water’ can both create new priority wet woodland habitats and protect other priority habitats such as chalk

Found: River Cam. 11.11 The E A also indicate that there is wider evidence of abstraction pressure on Chalk

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Found: water’ can both create new priority wet woodland habitats and protect other priority habitats such as chalk